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is by far the smallest battery box that I own, the smallest with the
fewest poor but it holds my twenty amp hour bioino battery and it has everything
you need. So I want to check it out today. This is the
Impulse T four hundred battery box. Let's take a look at the inside here.
I picked this up because someone at quartz Fest back in January of this
year mentioned this. I think this guy who makes these is in I don't
remember. He's in California, Arizona one way or the other. He's a
Ham who builds these on his own, and I'm always interested in promoting Ham
Radio business owners independent business owners for Ham Radio. So I said, this
was the smallest battery box that I've seen, but it's full featured. It
only has a couple of ports on it, but it has a charge controller.
It's a charge controller right here. This is a hundred and fifty watt
solar charge controller. MPPT is the MPPT solar charge controller. That's pretty cool.
One hundred and fifty watts. It'll take my little Gigaparts panel that I
use in multiple places. The two most popular solar panels that I used to
say are as my one hundred and fifty watt Gigga Parts Explore panel and my
three hundred wat Gigga Parts Explore panel. The three hundred primarily I plug into
the two hundred Empire battery in my truck, and one hundred and fifty wad
I kind of take around and plug it into whatever else I might be using
at the time, some battery box somewhere. But this one will take up
to one hundred fifty, so there's nothing wrong with that. So this,
uh, this right here, this T four hundred is and I'll share a
link to the description blow I purchased this from Impulse Electronics dot Com. I
purchased this box. It was not sent to me. I've never spoken to
the gentleman who owns the company. I just I thought it was a cool
box, so I thought, I'm gonna I'm gonna grab one and I'm gonna
put it in there. This box is advertised to hold either the fifteen or
twenty Biowino. This is my twenty Empire Biowino. It barely fits. It
barely fits. And if you can see, it's got these um blade connectors
here that are turned ninety degrees. I didn't do that. It came that
way, so isis. And these are these are coming straight out from the
port. These are turned ninety degrees. That one's turned this way, that
one's turned this way right there. So I suspect he did that on purpose
to because I'm sure he's probably got a twenty amp hour bioino and he knows
the configuration of this battery. So I suspect he did that on purpose so
that it'll fit properly. And it fits. It fits. It's barely,
it barely fits, but it does fit. So if you do that and
close that up like that. There we go right there and then we can
turn this up here. So there's this is a T four hundred twenty two
six. I don't know what that means, but this is These are power
works meters, so you can't really complain with that. The yellow one obviously
is your solar panel input, and the red one is your power output.
It's only got one output to power pull output on it. I wouldn't be
concerned about it. Okay. So I have about at the time of this
recruiting, I have about six battery boxes, so I just grabbed the one
that I want to take and go. If I want a small one,
that's the one I take. I'm curious about taking this thing on an airplane.
Technically the battery is too big. You're supposed to only take up to
one hundred and forty four which is basically a twelve vampower battery one hundred and
fifty watt hours for American airlines, which I usually fly. That's what they
advertise, but I've never had them take my battery out. Sometimes they'll say,
what is this. I say, it's a battery. Oh okay.
They don't look and see the what it's marked out. Maybe I'll print one
hundred and forty four WAT sticker and put it on this one. I didn't
say that, TSA, TSA, don't listen to this video. So it's
got a cigarette lighter adapter obviously right there. And then it's got a PD
and I don't remember the I don't remember the wattage on that. But it's
got a PD, a power Delivery USBC and a quick charge three point zero
for a USBA, and then we can turn that on and it shows thirteen
point two volts right there. So it's got all the essentials. It's got
everything you need. Solar panel input, power pool output, twelve volt cigarette
lighter adapter output. I think, honestly, I think I would probably trade
that and put another dual power pool in there. So I think what I
might do is take this thing out. Although you know, sometimes I buy
like I bought a a twelve volt cigarette lighter adapter that plugs into my Anytone
Desk cradle to charge my Anytone HT radios, and it has a cigarette lighter
adapter on it, and I thought, well, I'll just take that and
cut it off and put power pools on it, which is always a good
idea, okay, but some stuff actually, I mean sometimes you actually need
a power adapter, so I don't know, I might trade that out and
put the powerworks double. And I'm sure if you call this guy, I
mean, he seems like he's pretty responsive to emails. Or if you emailed
him, said instead of putting this in, it looked like he did custom
jobs on the website. You might don't quote me on that, but I
think that's true. So you might even be able to request and you know,
take the twelve volt power adapter cigarette lighter adapter out and put another power
pool thing in here, so which might be kind of cool. This is
just one size. He offers these in multiple sizes, four hundred. This
is just the just the one size that I chose. Could have gotten a
lot bigger one. I believe this. No, I think he makes a
smaller one. But it's like for the eight or ten or twelve vampower batteries
something like that. I had the twenty hour Bioano. I've had it for
a couple of years now, and I knew I had that batter I thought,
well, let me just get the one that fits my twenty amp hour
bio ino. Why not that that's just kind of a perfect perfect set up
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I kind of suspect this is. This looks like kind of a standard box
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for PCB Way and thank you for supporting this channel. I just want to
pull up the website real quick. This is the one that I got.
This is the T four hundred Go box for life pot four battery on hundred
and seventy five dollars at the time of this recording, grabbing go direct solar
panel input. Well, that's a that's a hefty Oh no, oh,
he's got a that's a whole radio in there. Nice. I don't remember
that being there. Okay, T three hundred Go box. It's a little
bit uh looks like that's a little bit better. He's got a little bit
bigger, I should say. He's got several ports on that that my box
doesn't have. Okay, so you see there's three this is the one that
I have right here. There's actually five on that one. There's a switch
you can switch the battery off and on. That's cool, and then there's
um there's a meet a lot of the meters on it there there's okay,
so the extra power pole. So you've got three power poles on the T
three hundred cool. Okay, that is probably a lot. This the next
size up a box from this, so you can do that right there.
Anyway, I just really like supporting hammade parts and hammade equipment like that.
So I've been really happy with this box. I've taken it out, I've
used this on Poda two or three times, and like I said, I've
had that battery. In fact, if you looked at the battery, it
has I don't know if you saw that or not, go back and watching
the video, but the labels starting to peel off of it because I've kept
the battery outside in the sun a few times. So it's good to have
the battery in a protective case. I've got the connections I need. I
can charge my phone in my tablet now from the ports that are on here.
So this is a great addition to the go box lineup. Let me
let me know in the comments below if you've ever heard of Impulse Electronics dot
com, if you ever if you have anything of theirs, and what you
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